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That’s a great question and the answer can be found in the wikipedia entry for the .uk domain.
In a nutshell the volunteer “Naming Committee” setup back in 1985 established a rule that entities needed to register into specific subdomains based on entity type such as .co, where the .co part stood for “Company”. They did this to make managing registrations easier and to provide an “at a glance” way to see what kind of website you were visiting (commercial, government, charity, etc). The “Naming Committee” was extremely strict about ensuring that domains were registered to a specific entity and in the correct subdomain.
By the mid-90s the volunteer “Naming Committee” was entirely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of domains being registered so that volunteer group was replaced by Nominet UK. Nominet didn’t open the .uk TLD to registration until 2014 and by then the subdomain thing (.co.uk) was so embedded into the United Kingdom’s internet structure that it had become tradition and NOT using was confusing to many people.
There’s more subdomains than just .co as well and both wikipedia articles I linked list them.
tl;dr .uk absolutely exists in the UK, it’s just used differently than almost anywhere else in the world.
If you ever decide you want to see it please for the love of Tim Curry don’t watch it on TV.
The only way to experience the RHPS is at a theater, movie or stage, with a floor show. Without the floor show you will not get what makes RHPS an adored Cult Classic. Seriously, the floor show is what makes (or breaks) the experience.
If you walk into the show and you’re not surrounded by people in costumes spouting weird lines, or if you don’t see them in the aisles within the first 90 seconds of the show starting then you may as well get up and leave.
Edit: Fixed my typo’s as pointed out by @shiny_idea@aussie.zone
would it surprise you if these are still the only two instances of parents being held accountable?
Yes it would. Adults, including parents, are increasingly being charged in other types of shootings such as when one child is playing with a firearm and accidentally shoots someone else. It’s not happening often enough yet but it’s growing in popularity. If you can remember long enough, I know I won’t, check back in a year and lets see what happened. :)
The psychology that causes school shootings…
The United States generally has a violent culture. If you removed every shooting of any type (school, mass, crime of passion, etc) from the crime statistics the US would still have a higher rate of violent crime than any other industrialized Western nation.
Aside from that it’s time to stop blaming Reagan for the mental health crisis in this country. Aside from the fact that our mental health system was a horror show when Reagan ended it the guy hasn’t been President for over three decades. That’s plenty of time for individual States and / or the Federal Government to have reversed course.
Plenty of countries with more guns per capita than the U.S. that don’t have school shootings.
There is no country with more firearms per capita than the United States.
Even if you go by household, to reduce the effect of people who have more than one firearm, the U.S. still ahead of any other nation.
To be clear we can and should do more to reduce gun violence in the United States and small things like prosecuting adults who are accessories to shootings are a good thing.
I strongly disagree. I’m about as Pro 2nd Amendment as it gets but what happened in Georgia was entirely preventable. The father should not have provided a firearm to a minor and especially not to a minor with a history of making threats.
Parents need to start going to jail for that kind of behavior and gun owners overall need to start securing their firearms so that children cannot get to them.
It’s not that damn difficult to do.
I started railing about the corrupting influence that Online Sports Betting has had on Pro AND COLLEGE sports two years ago. It’s so blatantly god damned obvious when a Ref, or Refs, start bending the game towards a certain outcome. Last year I started noticing a trend towards drastic reffing changes at halftime and started joking about “Well, guess Vegas called with the payoff.”.
It’s ruining Sport.
Because the Internet is for porn. Always has been, always will be.
If you look at a map of China’s BRI the reason behind this is obvious; half of China’s major Asian BRI projects go right through the Uyghur territory of Xinjiang. Any kind of rebellion that puts the BRI projects at risk is simply unacceptable to China’s strategic goals.
FWIW my elderly father, who is a two time Trump voter, admitted that he couldn’t pronounce Ramaswamy’s name right but thought that he’d be a better candidate this time than Trump himself. That’s only one person but if he would make the switch I have to imagine there’s a bunch more as there’s nothing special about my dad. He’s just another Fox News watching Boomer Republican.
You should be able to replicate that even in Word 365 (Desktop) by opening Word, going to Options, (or File then options if you have a document open) click the Save category on the left then check (or unchecking) the box for “Don’t show the Backstage when opening or saving files with keyboard shortcuts”.
In the latest version of Word 365 if I check that box I get the floating Save dialog. If I uncheck it I get the embedded version.
Thing is I’m pretty sure that option, or something very similar, has existed in the same place with every Word version since 2013 and perhaps even 2010. You can learn more about “Backstage” here.
I think the Circuit Board Background / Theme was introduced along with theming in either 2010 or 2013 and can still be done even in the latest versions of Word 365. You can find out how to do that here.
What do you mean by “All in one save menu?” / “not windows save menu but built in save menu”? Do you mean pre-ribbon interface, because that was introduced in Office 2007 and would mean that you’re looking for MS Word 2003 or earlier.
Here, have a look at this visual history of MS Word, it may help jar your memory about which one you’re after.
Just replace “Lemmy instance” with “blog”, and the answer is obvious.
Actually it’s not because there’s no 3rd party like there is with Lemmy and especially not a 3rd party that’s keeping a cache (copy) of the content.
If you are American then your Lemmy instance is most likely be protected by section 230…
So there’s no American users on lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or even lemmy.world itself? You’d be very very wrong in that assumption.
or host pirated content in the US, then YMMV.
Aaaand we are back where we started. What is “hosting”? Your lemmy “home”, lemmy.today for me, has a cached copy of all the content it’s users view. So if I retrieve illegal material my instance has it too and while it’s hidden it IS retrievable by both the Instance Operator and other users (if they know how).
So whose door(s) are the cops kicking down in the raid? Mine? Lemmy.Worlds? The one at exploding heads / lemmynsfw / db0zer? All of them?
(we’ll see if that changes when I get married)
The spouse test is a bitch. As an old nerd I can navigate highly technical and finicky systems very easily, my spouse on the other hand needs a ROKU style interface in order to successfully use things. Almost all of us end up creating a home system that works for the least tech savvy in the home.
With that said I’ve been told that Streamio + Real Debrid works quite well.
They aren’t doing that intentionally. They’re being DDOSd into the ground by someone(s) using SQL commands specifically crafted to hamstring their database. You can read about it here if their instance is up.
The legal environment around Lemmy is tenuous at best. Content and / or actions that are legal in one nation are illegal in others but Lemmy caches that content on every federated instance with active users.
To illustrate the complexity involved consider a Mexican user on a Lemmy instance located in Germany that visits exploding heads to view Nazi content. Which nations laws are controlling?
What about when an Australian user on a Finnish Lemmy instance who accesses something like fauxbait from lemmynsfw.com? Those images are arguably illegal in Australia but who has liability here? The Australian user? The Finnish Lemmy instance? Lemmynsfw.com?
In both of those scenarios the User is one country with its own set of laws, the Users Host Instance and its content cache are in a 2nd country with a different set of laws, and the instance hosting the content is in 3rd country with yet another set of laws!
It’s the same problem with digital piracy, who is legally liable when the law, and remember we don’t even know whose laws apply, is breached? The User? Their Host Instance? The Content Host? All of them?
Legal lightening is absolutely going to strike a Lemmy instance soon and no sane instance operator wants to be the lightening rod.
I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.
Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.